CSE692 Advanced Topics in Networking

Semester

Spring 2015

Instructor

Prof. Aruna Balasubramanian

Course Time

MW 4.00 – 5.20 PM

Location

CS 2129 (Note change in class room)

Class Discussion Forum

Piazza

Contact Info

Office hours: Monday, Wednesday 2.50pm — 3.50pm in CS 2428 Instructor email: arunab@cs.stonybrook.edu TA: Javad Nejati (jnejati@cs.stonybrook.edu)

Announcement

Future announcements on Piazza
The first class is cancelled due to snow. We meet on 1/28/2015.
A tentative schedule is up.
We will meet in CS 2129.
Piazza is set up for class discussions. Sign up now.
The course web page is up.

Description

The goal of this course is to cover advanced topics in networking, focusing on networking protocols in the real world. We will go through the standard protocols in each layer of the OSI stack and discuss how the protocols are re-designed for different technologies. For example, HTTP 1.0 was designed when web pages were simpler. How do industry practitioners and researchers modify HTTP for a more complex web ecosystem?

We will discuss the key design patterns that emerge from the protocol redesign. Some example technologies/topics we will cover in this course are: Data Center TCP and Networking, new Web protocols including HTTP 2.0/SPDY, Network Virtualization, and Mobile architecture.

Textbooks

There is no required textbook. If you would like to follow a text book, I recommend Computer Networks, A Top Down Approach by Kurose and Ross [KR] Another great book is: Computer Networks, by Andrew Tanenbaum and David Wetherall

Prerequisites

An introductory networking course is recommended but is not a pre-requisite. Based on the class composition, we will go over basic networking concepts as needed.

Grading

The grading criteria is as follows:

Project: 35%

Paper summaries: 15%

Presentations: 20%

Class participation: 5%

Midterm: 15%

Assignments: 10%

Project: The project constitutes a third of your grade. Around 3 weeks into the semester, we will discuss possible project ideas. You should choose a project, present a project pitch, and then complete the project by the end of the semester. See the schedule below for project related deadlines.

I encourage students to do the project in groups of 2. If you want to do a project without any team members, come talk to me. For project sizes that are bigger than 2, I expect considerably more work.

Paper summaries: You will have at most 2 papers to read each week (see schedule below).

There are approximately 15 papers assigned for reading. For each paper, you are expected to provide a summary. More details on how to write a paper summary are up on Piazza.

For grading, I will choose the top 10 out of the 15 summaries.

Presentations: Students (typically in groups of 2) should present at least 1 paper during the semester. The presentation will last 35 minutes total with a 10 minute Q&A. More details on paper presentation and the talk schedules are up on Piazza.

In addition, each project group should present a 10 minute project pitch earlier in the semester, and a 10 minute project presentation towards the end of the semester.

Tentative Schedule

Date	Topic	Readings	Notes/PDF name in Piazza
1/26/2015	Introduction	No reading.	CANCELLED DUE TO SNOW!!
Application Layer
1/28/2015	HTTP/DNS/CDNs	KR 2.2 and 2.5 [Optional]	Lecture class. [lectapplication.pdf] First assignment out, Friday 1/30/2015 11.00pm.
2/2/2015	No class due to snow		CANCELLED DUE TO SNOW!!
2/4/2015	Advances in HTTP: SPDY/Quic	SPDY [Optional]	Lecture class [lect_spdy.pdf]
Transport Layer
2/9/2015	TCP basics	KR 3.5, 3.6, 3.7 [Optional]	Lecture class [lect_tcp.pdf]
2/11/2015	TCP Ex-Machina	Ex-Machina [Required]	Lecture + Student presentation class Assignment 1 due by 11.00pm 2/13/2015. Assignment 2 is out.
2/16/2015	Detour: Introduction to Data Centers	DCTCP[Optional] DC Traffic[Optional]	Lecture class [lect_datacenters.pdf] + Discussion of possible project ideas.
2/18/2015	Data Center TCP/Google’s TCP	D2TCP [Required], GoogleTCP [Optional]	Lecture class + Student Presentation
Network Layer
2/23/2015	Demo class		Discussions on Mininet, Emulab, NS2, WProf
2/25/2015	Routing basics	KR 4.1, .3, 4.5, 4.6 [Optional]	Lecture class [lectnetworking.pdf] Assignment 2 due by 11.00pm 2/27/2015.
3/2/2015	PortLand + Route failures in the Internet	LifeGaurd [Required]	Lecture and Student Presentation class
3/4/2015	Routing in Data Centers	F10 [Required] + Portland [Optional]	[lect_datacenter_networking.pdf] Lecture + Student Presentation class
3/6/2015 (Friday make up class)	Project pitches		10 min project pitches by students.
3/9/2015	Project pitches continued		10 min project pitches by students (early release)
3/11/2015	Midterm (Open book/Open notes)
3/16/2015	Spring Break	No Class
3/18/2015	Spring Break	No Class
Switching Layer
3/23/2015	SDN introduction	SDN History [Optional]	Lecture class [lect_switching.pdf, lect_sdns.pdf]
3/25/2015	Advances in SDNs	SDN1 [Required]	[lect_sdn_2.pdf] + Student Presentation
3/27/2015 (Friday Makeup Class)	SDNs in the real world	SDN2 [Required]	Student Presentation
Physical layer
3/30/2015	Wireless physical layer		Lecture class
4/1/2015	Advances in Wireless: Full duplex wireless	Full Duplex [Required]	Student presentation & Lecture on mobile architectures Project progress due by 11.00pm 4/3/2015.
Mobile
4/6/2015	Recap of application to physical layer + LTE	LTE [Required]	Lecture (lect_recap.pdf) + Student Presentation
4/8/2015	CANCELLED		Student presentation (EDIT: Class cancelled!!!)
4/13/2015	Advances in LTE + Spectrum lecture	SmallCells [Required]	Student Presentation + Lecture on Spectrum (lect_whitespaces.pdf)
Hot Topics
4/15/2015	Middleboxes, Whitespaces	Middlebox1 [Required], WhiteSpaces[Required]	Student Presentations
4/20/2015	New data center architectures	Firefly [Required], Mirror[Required], Firefly extension	Student Presentation class
4/22/2015	Censorship video lecture	VPNGate[Optiional]	Video lecture. No office hours.
4/27/2015	Information Centric Networks	ICN1 [Required], ICN2 [Optional]	Student Presentation class
Projects
4/29/2015	Extended office hours in CSE 2428		Extended office hours
5/4/2015	No class (Make up 5/8)		No class, no office hours
5/6/2015	No class (Make up 5/8)		No class, no office hours
5/8/2015	Double class. 3.00 to 5.40		Project Presentation Project reports due 5/20 by 5 pm.

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